The Very Best of WCW Monday Nitro
Three-Disc Set
Released: June 7, 2011
DISC THREE

Your host is Diamond Dallas Page.

DDP admits that 1999 was the first time WCW started to show cracks in its armor. Sometimes the best laid plans don’t always work out, and this next match is certainly evidence of that statement. Read the rest of this entry →

In March 2001, WWE buys out WCW and the title is retired because the WWF already had a hardcore title at the time.

Footnotes:[1]: This was a tournament final match to determine the first ever WCW Hardcore champion.[2]: All three members of 3 Count (Shannon Moore, Shane Helms and Evan Karagias) pinned Knobbs simultaneously to win the title.[3]: Once the Russo/Bischoff era started on 4/10/2000, all the titles were made vacant as they reset the company.[4]: Due to the Hardcore title being vacant, Terry Funk and Norman Smiley were chosen to compete and the winner would capture the title.[5]: This was a handicap match with Funk and Smiley taking on Shane Douglas. Terry Funk scored the pinfall and therefore regained the title.[6]: Bischoff awarded the WCW Hardcore title to both Johnny the Bull and Big Vito of the Mamalukes tag team and deemed them as co-champions.[7]: Vito pinned Johnny the Bull to become the undisputed WCW Hardcore champion.[8]: When Lance Storm won the title, he changed the name of the belt to the Saskatchewan Hardcore International title. Turn it into an acronym, and you’ll see the joke.[9]: Storm awarded the belt to fellow Canadian Carl Oulette to make him the new champion.[10]: Acting WCW Commissioner Mike Sanders vacated the title and started up a tournament.[11]: This was a tournament final. Sgt. AWOL actually won the match, but acting WCW Commissioner Mike Sanders overturned the decision and gave the belt to Reno.[12]: The belt became vacant once Meng left for the WWF to appear at the Royal Rumble. With Meng’s departure from the company, WCW basically abandoned the belt.

Footnotes:[1]: This was a tournament final match to determine the first ever WCW Light Heavyweight champion.[2]: Armstrong vacated the title at the Clash of the Champions 20 on 9/2/1992 because of a knee injury. A tournament was scheduled to begin, but never happened and the title was dropped when Eric Bischoff took over WCW in March 1993.[3]: This was a tournament final match to crown the first ever WCW World Cruiserweight champion.[4]: Since Malenko could no longer challenge for the WCW World Cruiserweight title, he won a battle royal under Cicople’s mask to get a shot at Jericho and his title. Because of the way he won the title, Malenko was stripped of the belt on the 6/11/98 Thunder.[5]: This was a match to determine a champion. Jericho won by disqualification, which still counts as a title win for him.[6]: Dean Malenko served as the special guest referee in this match.[7]: This was a four-way match which also included Juventud Guerrera and Blitzkrieg.[8]: Lane was stripped of the belt because of his homosexual gimmick that made TBS uncomfortable.[9]: Disco Inferno and Psychosis wrestled to crown a new WCW World Cruiserweight champion.[10]: Oklahoma was forced to vacate the belt because he exceeded the weight limit requirements.[11]: This was a tournament final.[12]: Once the Russo/Bischoff era started on 4/10/2000, all the titles were made vacant as they reset the company.[13]: Candido won a six-way match which also included The Artist, Juventud Guerrera, Shannon Moore, Lash Leroux and Crowbar.[14]: Crowbar and Daffney defeated Candido & Tammy Lynn Sytch in a mixed tag match to become co-champions.[15]: Daffney defeated Crowbar to become the undisputed champion.[16]: This was a triple-threat match which also included Disco Inferno.[17]: Since Lance Storm was already the WCW U.S. champion and the WCW Hardcore champion, he awarded the WCW World Cruiserweight title to fellow Team Canada partner Elix Skipper.[18]: Sanders and Kevin Nash defeated Elix Skipper in a handicap powerbomb match to win the belt.[19]: With X-Pac’s WCW World Cruiserweight title win, this unified the belts with the WWF Light Heavyweight title.[20]: With the demise of the Alliance at the Survivor Series PPV on 11/18/01, the title becomes known as the WWF Cruiserweight title.